"[The evolution of my career has] just been peeling back the layers and now, it's like the ultimate layer was me saying, 'Now I'm going to do whatever kind of music that I want to do'…[it's] not always going to entail a hard Hip Hop beat, but sometimes it is," she said. "A lot of the tracks on [Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded] are a hard Hip Hop beat and just spitting, and that's why I've been [working with] some people like Cam, 2 Chainz and the legendary Nas. I got those people because…I wanted to get back to [just rapping]. I wanted to remember what it felt like when I just wanted to show people that I could rap."

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da1

da1

Anonymous

So because your niece and friends didn't like it suddenly the album's garbage? I'd say they need to grow a pair but then that would be weird. Anyway... Most albums (even bad one's) still have 2 or 3 decent songs on them. That's assuming you're taking the time to listen. I didn't buy this. Never said it was my taste, but her first album showed she has the skill. She just needs to decide who she wants to be. A rapper, orn entertainer... AKA Lady Gaga wanna be. Either way, she'll make money. That doesn't make the music garbage. It just makes it not cool to you, and that's fine. You have the choice not to listen.

OJ

Anonymous

Every top shelf artist has production/marketing costs. Wonder how many digital downloads this got off Itunes. Once again, this is not a disappointment. People just hate because if they admit they like it, then they risk being ridiculed. Grow a pair.

Anonymous

MY NIECE GOT IT AND THREW IT ON MY SOUND SYSTEM AND SHE AND HER LITTLE CRONIES FEEL THE SAME WAY AS MOST OTHERS, ALBUM AIN'T ALL OF THAT, BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME. TO ME, THE MUSIC IS VERY FISHER PRICE GENERIC AND HER RAP STYLE IS SUPER ANNOYING. KEEPING IT 100, I CAN STAND HER POP/SINGALONG SONGS A LIL MORE THAN THE RAPS, AND THAT'S PROBABLY BECAUSE I HEAR THE POP CRAP ALL THE TIME IN THE CAR.
IT B THEM FANS LIKE U, EVERYTHING IS HATING AND ALL TYPE OF TRASH BECAUSE SOMEONE DOESN'T LIKE EVERY SINGLE THING SAID PERSON DOES. NOW U GROW A PAIR AND B AN INDIVIDUAL INSTEAD OF A JADED FOLLOWER.
AND THAT LISTENING SESSION WAS OFF OF A STORE PURCHASED ALBUM, DID YOU BUY ONE CHEERLEADER? UR HERE CLICKING ALL ABOUT SALES AND TALK, U AIN'T SAID A PEEP ABOUT THE MUSIC.

Anonymous

Anonymous

lol, thats funny
its like I said down below, fuck what critics think or what haters think, the word of mouth on this record from Nicki's fanbase has been bad, they can ship as many copies into a store if they want but when one fan buys it and tells her friends "Yo, this new Nicki aint as good as the last one" you cant reverse that with all the promotion & marketing in the world

Anonymous

Actually, I think u might b the only one on here with common sense.. It's way to early... She needs to expand her core fan base then slowly wing them over to a lil pop...but she totally did a 360 im such a short time span and the shit backfired!

DAVIDATLHIPHOP

realest quote

All you new hip-hop fans (15-25 yr olds) have horrible attitudes about life and music. You don't even discuss the music like we did back in the day when Run DMC, Nas, Wu-Tang, Rakim, Biggy, Pac, etc. was running the game.
ALL you guys do is have your little online race wars and cry about Eminem vs whoever or Jay-Z is illuminate or who's "real" or not. Worst of all you think there is one way to rap or one style to floss.
You guys are too myopic, boring and ignorant to call yourselves "hip-hop" fans. It was never like this in the 80's and 90's. Black and White kids grouped up and pushed for better race relations. We were too smart to suck on the FOX news or CNN teat.
This is what's frustrating the pioneers of rap music and new well rounded rap artist. You FANS, YOU FANS, have lost ALL perspective.

Anonymous

Anonymous

You missed the point of the repost young man, it is saying there is no discussion of music, there are thousands upon thousands of comments of name calling, racial slurs, hatred, comment annoyance (trolling).
If I was a label executive I would have no way of judging whether you like the music or not through the comments that say Jay-Z is Illuminati, Nas is broke, Slaughterhouse sucks and everyone else is gay or irrelevant.
And if you say Facebook likes are the real way of telling, then it is worse than we thought, the interest of the music disappears as fast as the RSS alert sounds.
It's like you're telling the people who built the house what color you want to paint your room, but you don't believe them when they say the roof is about to fall and you won't even try to learn how to fix the roof. Once it caves in and you can't fix it, where you going to go? You have no room left.

17 yrs old

17 yrs old

Uh...we aint all like that. I can listen on a YMCMB track and after that i'll listen to The Greatest Story Never Told and after that put on some MMG shit. I knw plenty of teens like this. I just appreciate good music and i knw the difference between a fun track and serious track. But it seems to me like older fans dnt like the new school coz its not wat they used to.

Anonymous

Anonymous

Anonymous

@ DAVIDATLHIPHOP
The site that does these projections is almost always pretty close
it could go up or down about 20,000 but hitsdailydouble has been doin this shit on their site since 1999 and are pretty reliable

Chris Etrata

Anonymous

what i want to know is where are all the niggas who claim "young money buy albums" now? this pretty much shatters your bias ass theories to shit. but you niggg as will never take accountability for jumping to conclusions and then being proven wrong.

Anonymous

I'm still here, i think they still gonna buy the albums. probably they going with another strategy now. imma wait to see where she at in like 2 months, and if she close to plat, then that proves my point.
or mayb baby just realized that this is bad for business, b/c no matter how many albums he buys, no one on the label is gonna get anywhere close to 3 mil

Swag

Anonymous

Chunk Dogg

Anonymous

I figured as much, she went too far with it, that Grammy performance pissed off more people then it attracted and she went way overboard with the pop friendly sound.
Who cares about critics or haters, everybody has those, but if you read the fan reactions to this record, alot of the people who bought the last one arent satisfied and no amount of promotion can change the damage done by bad word of mouth

Burmy

DAVIDATLHIPHOP

In the 90's if you wanted a cd you had to buy it even if was bootleg the bootleg man had to buy it. Today so many folks just do illegal downloads its going to be hard for any artist to sell 4 million cds. Its 2012 and many folks not even checking for juvie. He might have sold albums but I bet he wont the money Baby stole from him and Manny Fresh.

DAVIDATLHIPHOP

You sir dont watch the news they had projected Hillary to be President the last 2 years of Bush in office. She was a shoe in to be the next President. I am a news nerd, this is what I do. Just like it was project Al Gore beat Bush the first time around. If you ever look at Presidential Projections you would see that the original front runner never wins.

Anonymous

^that was the dumbest ananlogy ive ever heard. 1. hillary was never projected to be president. she was even in the final race.
2.politics is completely different to music. hits daily double have an impeccable track record in sales projections. all it require is tallying up store sales and online retail sales then than giving an approximation, and they are very good at it. that has absolutely nothing to do with politics.

WHATTHEHELL?

These sales must be rigged...Nicki Minaj is close to Lady Gaga's level of popularity but she's only doing slightly more then J Cole???? WHAT THE FUCK???? How did Drake sell 600,000 something and she can't even do half of that when she's more popular then Drake? I swear these sales are rigged.

Anonymous

lego

blaze

This shit got rated a 2/5 for being too draining so i was pretty much expecting the low sales. I mean 90% of the beats are shitty she rapping like she's the 'female weezy' Starships was the only medicore song on the alubm and that was a pop song. Everything else was superwack so please Yadig and So ICY BOI cant deny it.

Anonymous

nose jobs skin bleach colored hair and pop songs don't make you white. be yourself nicki. pac was a black panther and the white people still bought his shit. because sincerity and talent always prevails. you have talent but there's no soul in your music. nobody likes a sellout.

Anonymous

Anonymous

these projections are rarely off.
the sad irony is that nicki let the pressure of drake and lil wayne's sales make her alienate her core fanbase by trying to go pop ..where she thought the "popularity" is - thinking it would increase her sales... but instead it just backfired and betrayed those who supported her original "brand" *i guess that's the new cool word to use now*. i understand the pressure she was under as a female with such high expectations... but that never justifies turning your back on what got you there. there's a difference between increasing your "brand" brand and completely crossing over. and the general feeling is that nicki crossed over. this album was a pop album with a few raps songs thrown in there just to patronize her original fans to avoid backlash. and people see that through that type of shit.
let this be a lesson to artists who are thinking about going pop just to sell records and be accepted by the white people thinking it will make you some sort of icon. there's not better substitute for success than just being yourself. NOBODY likes a sellout. not even the people you're sellout out for!
let this be a lesson to you

YESSIR

YESSIR

Anonymous

i peep game; they couldn't have her sell more than madonna who came out week before her, cuz nobody would believe her numbers. But look how fast she gonna reach platinum. i garauntee that her album is gonna keep performing at the same level, even though almost everyone who starts with those numbers barely cross gold. Don't get it twisted, Baby still gonna buy her albums.

michigan

for all the promotion this album got this is a flop. she sold 376,000 units her first week for pink friday. that say she will end up selling around 500,000 units for this album. To me this album is trash. most of the tracks are fist pumping techno songs. hahaha i only like roman reloaded and champions. i like 2 chains verise on beez in the trap and cam and ross's verses on follow the leader or what ever its called. But in my opinion how did she go from her first album to this just 16 months later?

Anonymous

pointing out that her first album only sold as much as it did b/c it was released on black friday only strengthens his point. and these projections from hdd ar always very accurate. chec their track record. they are very good at what they do .
and saying "anything's possible" can apply to anything. in theory i could get attacked by an owl while i sleep, but its still very unlikely. the likelihood of this album going platinum in the near future is very low. but hey "anything's possible' -_-

Anonymous

Speculation. Cannot compare this album's 1st wk with the 1st one, 1st one was released on Black Friday. These numbers are not factual, nothing but 100's of comments for HHDX. Album can still go platinum and make your prediction of gold look stupid, BEP sold 22,000 for 2 years and went dbl plat. No Nicki lover, just someone who knows the business.

YESSIR

YESSIR

NAS ISNT GOING TO SPEND MONEY? SO YOU ADMIT NAS AINT GOING TO DO NICKI NUMBERS LMAO. LIKE I SAID IF THIS IS A FLOP YOU HAVE TO CALL NAS A FLOP AND EVERYBODY ELSE THIS YEAR BESIDES WAYNE DRAKE AND ROSS CUS NOBODY ELSE DOING THESE NUMBERS UNLESS JAY DROP AN ALBUM

Anonymous

Anonymous:
Didn't her Last Album come out on Black Friday when evrything is on disscount? so obviously that would be the big difference when it come to sales right..
==================
The only person here who sees it. THAT, is the difference here, and these numbers are PROJECTIONS, may be HIGHER or LOWER.

Anonymous

Anonymous

IF NIKI CAME OUT IN 2000 WOULD U STILL CALL HER HIP HOP ? ITS ONLY BECAUSE THE FUCKERY HAS REACHED THIS LEVEL THAT THIS STUFF CAN SLIDE, YEA SHE MAKING MONEY AND YEA SHE UP THERE IN THE CLOUDS AND AL THAT BUT THE BITCH IS WACK AND NEEDS TO SIT DOWN,

Anonymous

TRUTH

The problem with Nicki Menaj..or where I see they are making a mistake with her career is that she has GONE TO POP TO EARLY. She still has yet to solidify herself in HIPHOP. Perfect your HIP HOP MUSIC first. Then branch out...on the 3rd or 4th album. You don't go THIS POP on your sophmore album...you are already alienating your fan base that liked you for what got you here. She is becoming A JACK OF ALL TRADES AND MASTER AT NONE. just my opinion.

Anonymous

so watstup with the one eye occult rubbish on every single album cover any hip hop artist does, it looks like a kesha album cover i dont belive all the records sold were truly bought by fans, its just not possible because the music is ok but its not that great, theres another force thats moving these records, not a satinaic or boogyman force, but a serious commercial push and all these people are laughing all the way to the bank, aaliyah, game, kesha rhianna all had the one eye on their album and wat is everysingle one a coincidnce
im not gonna say the 'i' word but it is time for us all to wake up and realise why all are popstars are starting to look like clones of each other, this was shown in with that simalar themed halftime performance show were they pretty much showed you everything and then gave everyone the finger, there laughing at us because were to stupid to realise wat there doing,

Anonymous

She a black woman taking over rap music and pop music #1 in 2 category she doesn't have any female rappers on her level so she's taking on da lady gagas and da Katie Perry's and maddonnas and she will come out on top she all ov da Radio respect our QUEEN

Anonymous

YESSIR

IF MOVING 200,000 UNITS IS A FLOP THEN DAMN NEAR ALL BUT LIKE 2 HIPHOP ARTIST ARE GOING TO FLOP THIS YEAR. THOSE TWO BEING WAYNE AND DRAKE LMAO. YEAH THEY ARE BOTH COMING WITH THAT HEAT. I AM NOT A HUMAN BEING IS ALREADY DONE BY WAYNE AND DRAKE IS ALREDY COLLECTING BEATS FOR HIS NEXT ALBUM.
SO WHAT THE PEOPLE GOT TO SAY IS EVERYBODY ELSE IN HIPHOP GOING TO FLOP THIS YEAR THEN? OH MY NIGA ROSS MIGHT SELL OVER 200K FIRST WEEK SHOUT OUT TO THE BIG HOMMIE REAL GANGSTER RIGHT THERE

YESSIR

Chris Etrata

Roman reloaded is Definitely unfocused with most of the first half being rap song while the second half consists of Redone songs. Half of the time it feels like she could have been more of an RCA artist with pitbull than a ymcmb artist.

J.T.

Moving 250,000 in the first week is NOT an accomplishment. Her debut sold more then that so it proves that she is regressing. The poor reviews, bad grammy performance and the Pink Friday title hurt this album. The artwork is pretty bad too and people dismiss how important that can be when attracting new customers. Nicki is going to keep going downhill unless she makes some drastic changes.

Anonymous

Anonymous

Since you all are armchair A&Ring, I would like to remind you that you are leaving out recording and promotion/marketing money that is used to push an album. The rappers, producers, recording studio, radio stations, artwork people, websites all have to get paid and none of us know how much money was already spent up until now. This one of the reasons why NUMBERS count. The first album was released on a MAJOR SHOPPING HOLIDAY, BLACK FRIDAY. Now, there is no holiday to create shopping and online discounts for fans to flock to the stores, so we will see what her true drawing power is.

AB

thats a stupid comment (how much did your album sell)..were talking about record sales based on an article..she said she would sell a milli drake sold 250,000 more his second time around..nikki sold half a milli the first time so to sell half less is a flop..if you think baby and wayne didnt think she would sell 800,000 to a milli your crazy with all the promo she got

ET

she smells of shit

its such a terrible album cant believe they even let it get released its a really shitty pop album i mean if i have to id listen to rihanna cause she has some decent songs but this thing is a complete joke sounds like one them high school musical soundtracks made by a team of glue sniffing retards

Anonymous

I'd hardly say that's a bomb. Factor in she's been way over exposed since the first album. Plus her Grammy performance didn't help, but a #1 chart is still a #1 chart. If she can release the right singles, she'll easily go platinum again.

Anonymous

She shouldn't have named it after the first album, because it makes people think it's just an extended play album, with only 3-4 new songs added to the original Pink Friday. Label execs can be so very dumb sometimes. You can't always let the artist do everything their own way.

firealarm

Chris Etrata

Sorry, I mean how is 200,00 copies impressive when pink Friday sold 350000 in its opening week. I was expecting at least 400,000 and could have gone more than 500000. Remember when drake did 475000 for his debut album before selling over 600000 for Take Care. Why is this bombing.

Chris Etrata

You are right about that. It should have sold at least 400000 but I would be secretly disappointed if it doesn't sell 500000 copies. As for the title, that definitely hurts but I also think there could be a backlash. I also prefer nicki minaj raps rather than ester dean songs that herself, Rihanna, or Katy perry could have sung.

Swag

rich

True. she did go too pop with it. BUT her fans are diehards. she failed to attract the average rap fan...cuz her singles sucked...her grammy performance sucked...the album sucks...and the marketing sucks. plus she shouldve renamed the album

Anonymous

Birdman

Chris Etrata

rich

weird. I wouldve guessed she would do drake numbers considering her huge pop following. But she will still do a mill...pop albums like this one keep steady sales numbers over months and months...not like hip hop shhit that dissapears from charts after a month.
Dont think this album was promoted properly in my opinion. I remember her all over the place when her first album came out. Her singles sucked too which didnt help. I'm not really a drake fan, but hes the only guy around from YMCB in 5 years. He's the only one that isnt a brand...hes an artist...people buy into him and his music.....not a barbie image or waynes bullshit

Anonymous

Swag

YESSIR

SHE STIL MOVIN UNITS NOT AS HIGH AS THE TEAM WOULD LIKE BUT WAY MORE THAN YOUR FAVORITE RAPPER LOL. YMCMB IS A MACHINE NOBODY CAN STOP US LOL. JUST LIKE LAST ALBUM NICKI WILL GRIND AND THE SALES WILL CONTINUE TO RISE YOU CANT STOP GREATNESS AND NICK IS GREAT AND SO IS YMCMB.

SO ICEY BROKE HOE

NOSIR

Can anybody say Stink Friday Roman Just Flopped LOL! cause that's exactly what's going to happen next week with Nicki's album sales it's over face it u got lucky on your debut album SWEETY! but lets be real this BITCH will only sale like 48,000 at best this time come on u losers YMCMB SUCKS BALLS BITCHESS!!! DON'T SUPPORT THE MOVEMENT! these Young Money clowns are talentless and overrated u want to support a real music force in the game today support ROC NATION cause we the shit we actually have real talent over here and put out real Hip Hop music that is appealing to the fans while YMCMB is just a group of over hype popular WACK ASSES your days on top are numbered u YMCMB losers 28 LETTERS FOR U ROC NATION DREAMVILLE GOOD MUSIC

Anonymous

ummmmm

Nah she good. She will go GOLD and maybe better if she has good singles. That may not be as good as before but its not a flop. I will say this though: her style has an exploration date on it. She is not about to have a 4 album run.